A pioneer in the study of infectious diseases, microbiologist Harold Ginsberg has died from pneumonia:
Microbiologist Harold Ginsberg, who pioneered the study of viruses and infectious diseases, has died of pneumonia. He was 85.
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In the 1950s, while at Western Reserve University (now Case Western), Ginsberg showed that common childhood infections such as atypical pneumonia and pharyngitis were caused by adenoviruses — a type of virus that can survive long periods outside a host.
My question: Ironic? Or not?